A doctor and a clinic owner were sentenced for their roles in a pill mill scheme. Jonathan Rosenfield, MD, 40, of Atlanta, and Elmer Taylor, 44, of Houston, were sentenced to 10 and 12 years in prison, respectively, following their guilty pleas to conspiracy to unlawfully distribute and dispense controlled substances. According to court documents, Rosenfield owned, operated, and was a physician at the two Sunnyside Medical pill mill clinics, which did business as Sunnyside Wellness, and Elmer Taylor co-owned and co-operated the clinics. Rosenfield, Taylor, and their co-conspirators issued prescriptions for opioids, including approximately 752,000 pills of oxycodone and 419,000 pills of hydrocodone, under Rosenfield’s name, outside the usual course of professional practice, and not for a legitimate medical purpose. The prescriptions often were issued to individuals paid by drug dealers to pose as patients, and the pills ultimately were diverted to the illegal market. From May 2018 to August 2019, the Sunnyside Medical clinics grossed approximately $5,478,000 from the sale of these prescription drugs.
